A competent body, its top-level management and the personnel responsible for carrying out the conformity assessment tasks shall not be directly involved in the design, manufacture or construction, the marketing, installation, use or maintenance of those products, or represent the parties engaged in those activities.

2. A competent body, its top-level management and the personnel responsible for carrying out the conformity assessment tasks shall not be the designer, manufacturer, supplier, installer, purchaser, owner, user or maintainer of the products which they assess, nor the authorised representative of any of those parties.

A competent body, its top-level management and the personnel responsible for carrying out the conformity assessment tasks shall not be directly involved in the design, manufacture or construction, the marketing, installation, use or maintenance of those products, or represent the parties engaged in those activities.

A competent body, its top-level management and the personnel responsible for carrying out the conformity assessment tasks shall not be the designer, manufacturer, supplier, installer, purchaser, owner, user or maintainer of the products which they assess, nor the authorised representative of any of those parties.

improving the performance of young people at high risk of early school leaving and with low basic skills in line with the framework laid down in the 2011 Council Recommendation (10), for instance through the early identification of low achievers in basic skills across all phases of schooling, by providing individualised support — while validating the knowledge, skills and competences acquired in non-formal and informal settings — and by combating the causes of low achievement with the help of high quality and accessible early childhoo ...[+++]d education and care;

ACTIONS The Commission will: Key Action 10: Propose digital literacy and competences as a priority for the European Social Fund regulation (2014-2020); Key Action 11: By 2012, develop tools to identify and recognise the competences of ICT practitioners and users, linked to the European Qualifications Framework[49] and to EUROPASS[50] and develop a European Framework for ICT Professionalism to increase the competences and the mobility of ICT practitioners across Europe; Other actions: Make digital literacy and skills a priority of the "New skills for new jobs" Flagship to be launched in 2010[51], including the launch of a multi-stakehol ...[+++]der sectoral council for ICT skills and employment to address demand and supply aspects; Promote a higher participation of young women and women returners in the ICT workforce through support for web-based training resources, game based eLearning and social networking; Develop in 2011 an online consumer education tool on new media technologies (e.g. consumer rights on the internet, eCommerce, data protection, media literacy, social networks etc.).